In December 2022, government representatives and other official bodies from around the world met in Montreal, Canada, for COP15: The UN Biodiversity Conference. Among the many things discussed was the so-called ‘30 by 30’ target – the pledge to conserve 30 per cent of the planet's terrestrial and marine habitat by 2030.
We spoke to Dr Andrew Terry, director of conservation and policy at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), about the significance of the target, the current state of Earth's biodiversity and what we can do to reverse the already devastating losses.
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF BIODIVERSITY?
Biodiversity speaks to the range of the variety of life. We think about that right from
